XXVII 
SOME BIRDS THAT COME IN MAY 
In Apple-blossom Time look for Orioles and All the Brightly 
Coloured Birds. 
“In May you must get up early and keep both eyes and 
ears wide open if you would name this month’s share of 
the birds. All that have not come must do so now or 
never, though sick and crippled birds may straggle along 
at any time. 
“These are the birds you may expect during the month. 
Some you already know from both pictures and stories, 
and these will seem like old friends: — 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Scarlet Tanager 
Nighthawk Red-eyed Vireo 
Humming-bird Yellow Warbler 
Kingbird Maryland Yellowthroat 
Baltimore Oriole Yellow-breasted Chat 
Bobolink Redstart 
Indigo-bird Veery 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
“Some cloudy morning early in the month, you will 
hear a new call. At first it may suggest the coo-o0-00 of 
the Mourning Dove, then the drumming of the Flicker, 
but after waiting for a moment you realize that it is 
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